Money-package



(No Model.)

B. L. CHOPE.

MONEY PACKAGE.

No. 366,075. Patented July 5, 1887.

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nccted at one of their edges by a flexible hinge UNITED STATES PATENT OFEIcE.

ROBERT L. OHOPE, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.-

MONEY-PACKAG SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 366,075 dated July 5, 1887.

Application filed August 12, 1886.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that l, ROBERT L. GHoPE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Money-Packages, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates especially 'to moneypackages in which it is intended that a certain definite sum ofcoin shall be placed which will fill the package completely full, and which may be used by bankers and others who are accustomed to use large sums of money, to enable them to do away with the constant recounting of coin in the transaction of business.

Figure 1 represents the money-package open and empty. I make it in two sections, each of which consists of a half'cylinder of paper, pasteboard, or metal, having the ends turned inward to form an internal flange, shown at D. Fig. 2 represents the package closed.

The two half-cylinders A and B are conor joint, of paper or other flexible material, and the unconnected edge of one of the halfcylinders has attached to it a flap coated with adhesive material, so that when the two halfcylinders are shut together they will form a cylinder, which may be fastened shut by dampening the adhesive flap on the half-cylinder A and pressing it down upon the half-cylinder B, the package then becoming a hollow cylinder, of which the two ends are constricted by reason of the internal flanges.

Instead of using the adhesive flap G, I some- 1 I Serial No. 210,734. (No model.)

times hold the two halves of the cylinder together by means of an elastic band, (shown at Ein Fig. 2.) These half-cylinders are made of a size to closely fit the coin which it is intended to place in them, and the length from end to end between the flanges is such that the receptacle will hold a certain definite numberot' coins, so that the manufacturer can mark upon each package the amount of coin which it will hold and the denomination which is intended to be packed in it, and the user will know without counting that the stated amount is contained in it.

I am aware that cylindrical money-holders have been made having the ends of the semicylinders of which they were composed fully closed by an end piece 3 and therefore I do not claim such cylindrical money-holder, broadly, but confine my claim of improvement to a holder in which the two semi-cylinders have the ends not closed, but constricted by an in terior ring or flange.

Having thus described my invention, what claim as new, and, desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- I A cylindrical moneypackage made in sections and arranged to he closed up in the form of a cylinder, having the ends partially closed up by an internal flange turned on the ends of the sections of the cylinder.

ROBERT L. GHOPE.

Witnesses:

CHARLES F. BURTON, R. A. PARKER. 

